Vasilisa Šelomovská

Costume design · Illustration · Making

Vasilisa Šelomovská

Costume designer and illustrator in Prague. I build characters and the worlds they live in — on paper and screen, and in cloth, plaster and papier-mâché.

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Four ways of working

Handmade costume of layered linen with a painted white mask, hood and leather satchel

Costume & masks

Wearable characters: sewn costumes, papier-mâché masks, make-up.

Pink and purple portrait of a grinning woman with long braided hair

Illustration

Character-driven digital painting, portraits and sketchbook work.

Stack of printed copies of the teal book You're Not Alone

Published work

Books, covers and a school newspaper, from brief to print.

Vine painted directly onto a wall, growing around an old light switch

Space & sculpture

Wall painting, plaster casts and site-specific installation.

Selected pieces

Woman in a red gown reaching for a glowing keyhole in a dark library
Keyhole · Digital painting, 2025
Mask split down the middle in green and yellow with a copper tear
Marpha · Papier-mâché, acrylic
White-painted branches fixed to a weathered wall in an angular growing shape
Équinoxe, outside I · Site-specific installation, 2026
Laughing man in a wide black hat and cravat, face mottled with dark marks
The Host · Digital painting
School blazer and tie worn with clown make-up, bells and a ruffled collar
Schoolboy Clown · Costume and make-up
Portrait of a curly-haired person with a white flower and vines growing from their head
Flower Crown · Digital portrait, 2026

About

Vasilisa Šelomovská is an aspiring costume designer and illustrator, a 2026 graduate of the International Section of the Lycée Français de Prague, and fluent in English, French and Russian.

She illustrated a published book, drew covers for a walking guide and a podcast, run a school newspaper as editor-in-chief, built masks and costumes for the stage, and shown sculpture and installation work at the 2026 Équinoxe exhibition.

More about Vasilisa
Feathers braided through hair and held against the face

Open for commissions

Bring a character to life

Character portraits, book and podcast covers, masks and costume pieces. Tell me what you have in mind and I will send a quote.

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